Canvas Teacher allows teachers to facilitate their courses on the go, both inside and outside the classroom. This app provides quick access to grading, communicating, and updating—three of the most frequent course facilitation tasks for teachers through Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes.

Canvas Teacher requires a Canvas account. If you are an instructor and your institution does not use Canvas, sign up for a Free for Teacher account.

Canvas Teacher is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Grading

Teachers can browse submissions and provide feedback to their students with a new and improved mobile SpeedGrader embedded in the app.

Communicating

Teachers can post announcements, send messages, and participate in course discussions. Canvas Teacher includes the Message Students Who feature from the web version of Canvas and allows teachers to easily send messages to students about specific course assignments.

Updating

Teachers can easily update course content such as due dates and spelling errors. They can also publish assignments, manage discussion settings, and adjust quiz options.

What does the teacher app do that the student app does not? Since I apparently have to download the student app to receive notifications, I'm curious if I actually need the teacher version. Would be so beneficial if the teacher app functioned independently of the student app

Thanks for posting your questions. There are quite a few features and settings that are only available in the Teacher app. Some of the big ones are: grading, managing course settings, and creating assignments.

I wanted to follow up with you to make sure that the resources Naomi shared with you helped answer your questions. If you have any further questions about the difference between the Teacher and Student roles, you can always check out What is the Teacher role? and What is the Student role? since the app functionalities are tailored to meet those user's responsibilities.

I also wanted to let you know that we periodically remove inactive comment threads from the Canvas Guides in an effort to keep them updated and tidy. We're always happy to help, though, so you can comment on the guides whenever needed!